We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption; but how near or distant that is, nobody knows - not even God. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption; but how near or distant that is, nobody knows - not even God.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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